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Hoby-Van-Hoose
New Participant
August 22, 2023

Node editor view for variable aliases

  • August 22, 2023
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I’m noticing to make much of anything with variables, I’m creating a lot of collections that use mostly aliases. After selecting the alias source I mostly have to keep these connections in my head.

It would be nice to open up all these connections in a node editor view to either make updates or check for mistakes.

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Blackwood
New Member
September 8, 2023

Same. Currently having to manually build my own mappings so our developers can follow the connections:

Hoby-Van-Hoose
New Participant
November 3, 2023

I might have to do the same—even just so I can understand what I’ve done, when coming back to it later.

Nodes are all the rage these days and it’s not like we don’t have a precedent with the Prototype interface. I’m a little surprised that such a visualizer wasn’t even hinted at since the variables announcement.

Jordan_Kersey1
December 16, 2023

hoping this becomes a thing soon. Just had a similar thought and wanted to share the feature to come to find it already suggested. I’ve used the mindmap feature in FigJam to create a quick mapping of things - but that didn’t quite do the job. Even some sort of plugin could work for this, but it would be great if there were just multiple different kinds of views to view and edit variables, would be amazing

Aguiar_Leonardo_extern
Active Member
January 19, 2026

I have searched for tools for making this referenced variables visualization possible. So far the only tool that comes close to satisfying this need is a plugin called Variables Visualizer.

 

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1457362132545070106/variable-visualizer-design-system-token-variables-management

 

It can help but there are some pain points for navigating variables that have multiple aliases. If anyone knows of a better tool please share.